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Alexander Ramsey 1523–1590 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1523

Birth Location: Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Death Date: Abt 1590

Death Location: Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland

Father: Nicolas Home

Mother: Lady Ramsey

Spouse(s):

Children(s):

Alexander Ramsey was born in 1523 in Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland, the child of Nicolas Home And Lady Isabel Livingston Ramsey. Alexander Ramsey passed away in 1590 in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland.

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Biography

  • Alexander Ramsey was born in 1523 in Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland, the child of Nicolas Home And Lady Isabel Livingston Ramsey.
  • Alexander Ramsey passed away in 1590 in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland.

Immediate Family

Parents

Nicolas Home
1488–1555
Birth Location: Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland
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Lady Ramsey
1505–1552
Birth Location: Kincardineshire, Scotland
LR

Spouses(s)

Children(s)

Alexander Ramsey's Ancestors

Self
Alexander Ramsey
1523–1590
Birth Place: Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Parents
Nicolas Home
1488–1555
Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland
Lady (Isabel Livingston) Ramsey
1505–1552
Kincardineshire, Scotland
Grandparents
Lord (Alexander) Ramsay
1450–1506
VERIFIED- Home (Hume) Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland -Home Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th or early 13th-century castle held by the Home family, who became Lords and Earls.
Lady (Nicola Carr) (Kerr)
1458–1519
VERIFIED- Wedderburn Castle, near Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland -Wedderburn Castle has belonged to the Homes family of Wedderburn since the 15th century. Originally a fortification, converted by Patrick Home.
Great-Grandparents
Lord Canmore.
1428–1456
Lady Hepburn
1430–1425
George Samuelston
1430–1497
Mariëtte Sinclair
1450–1518
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Adam Hailes
1390–1445
Johanna Borthwick
1395–1464

Alexander Ramsey's Timeline

2 Records

1523
1523
Birth of Alexander Ramsey in Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland
1590
Abt 1590
Age 67
Death of Alexander Ramsey in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland
Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1523
    Event Place: Roxborough, Roxburghshire, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: Abt 1590
    Event Place: Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland
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